How to set start directory to /home/user rather than /home/user/Desktop?

I am a died in the wool commadn line user.  I have just installed
Debian Bookworm on my laptop in place of xubuntu.  The installation
went pretty smoothly and now I'm configuring things the way I want
them.

I **hate** icons on the desktop and I just want to be in $HOME when I
log in.  So I have configured ~/.config/user-dirs.drs so none of the
things like ~/Music and ~/Pictures are created, so far so good. I have
also set things so that my 'desktop' directory isn't ~/Desktop, it's
~/.desktop which is invisible.  I have absolutely no need or use for a
desktop directory.

However, when I start a terminal it starts in ~/.desktop, I want it to
start in ~.  Does anyone know where that gets set?  I certainly had
XFCE configured in xubuntu so that terminals started in ~ so I think
it must be possible in Debian.


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Chris Green
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